In Common with Humans

I spotted this news item which may attack Darwin but offers a beautiful example of the power of fundie denial:

Alachua publisher enlists Kirk Cameron to promote criticism of Darwin

“A former child actor is partnering with a local publisher to distribute altered copies of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” to university students across the country in November – around the time of the 150th anniversary of the book’s original publishing.

“In September, Kirk Cameron, best known for his role in the 1980s sitcom ‘Growing Pains,’ announced in a YouTube video plans to distribute the book with Living Waters Ministry at the 100 top U.S. universities.

“The special edition will include a 50-page introduction by author, minister and evangelist Ray Comfort that discusses the history of evolution, Darwin’s life and how his ideas have been used to support racism, misogyny and Nazism.”

Of course, the Bible has “been used to support racism, misogyny and Nazism” far more, and for far longer than Darwin, but we just hope you don’t remember about that! *wry look*

My tweets from yesterday for non-Twitterers:

• 15:23 Lots of complaints on Facebook about the changes to home pages, less about Group page changes. I’m just happy I can even log in to my acct #
• 20:43 Whew. One book cover done! (front cover, at least) One guest blog post done! Setting up publisher account on Smashwords. #

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• 14:47 @Shannon_Delany I write to invoke the power of language–to entertain, to teach, to create new worlds, to change reality. Writing is magic. #
• 14:51 Woo-hoo! Got new book (is.gd/4y0kO) by Deepak Chopra! I love his books (met him once, too). Used up book club pts & got h/c for $5 #
• 20:25 I’ve finally cracked how to use mask layers in PSP! (sorry for the whoop, but I’ve been tussling w/ this for a while & I NEED it! It WORKS!) #

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• 13:21 Jennifer Williams interviews me for the Open Book Society blog: bit.ly/2mfmez #
• 15:22 For some reason, I crave chocolate much worse when I’m doing graphic art than when I’m writing. Wonder why that is? Left brain/right brain? #
• 15:35 GREAT reasoned look by Tim O’Reilly at “piracy,” access & online distribution. (Thx to KA Laity for this) is.gd/4whGw (P2P) #
• 20:53 @Saraphina_Marie Tell me more. 🙂 #

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• 16:16 Reporter from the Lowell Sun just left, went well, we had a great (long!) talk & photos, no definite date for piece yet, we shall see! #
• 16:24 Marion Moneker adds to growing arguments that “huge advances” & publishing business model in general are unsustainable: is.gd/4uAHt #
• 16:55 Facebook driving me nuts. Log in…thrown off…log in…thrown off. Twitter “over capacity” half of today. MySpace ALWAYS lets me login! #
• 16:57 Half through audiobook of Breaking Dawn. It’s hard, because when pumping exercycle at 19mph rolling your eyes is inadvisable #

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• 13:04 To my Facebook friends, I am still locked out of FB, in case this echoes there. I get e-mail alerts for yr comments, etc but can’t respond #
• 15:37 Internet Archive’s Bookserver challenges Amazon, Google w/ open system to index digital books & their sellers is.gd/4sNWZ (CNET) #
• 15:47 Interesting discussion of Kindle, ebooks, book piracy from U.K. perspective (read comments, too): is.gd/4sOuR (BBC) #
• 17:15 I just made today’s 182,204th health reform call to Congress. Help us get to 200,000: bit.ly/1t6LPH #hc09 #CallCongress #OFA #

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• 12:14 Indpendent book sellers respond to escalating Amazon/Wal*Mart price war for books: is.gd/4r4yE (Shelf Awareness) #
• 12:20 PW says “nearly 50 bookstores have signed up to participate in National Bookstore Day, Nov. 7” is.gd/4r4QV My question, why so few? #
• 12:20 There are 1500-2000 bookstores in U.S. & they’re all threatened by Amazon & Wal*Mart! #
• 13:40 My cynicism about briefly being able to access Facebook yesterday was justified, I’m locked out again today. #
• 20:47 If you’re still giving that whole “balloon boy” nonsense one second of sustained thought, I’m sorry, but you need to get a life. :-p #
• 21:08 @AcrophobicPixie You’re just giving the creeps the attention & publicity they wanted in the first place! #
• 21:20 @AcrophobicPixie I’m sure she’ll get a lot of laughs. I’m talking more about people who R reading all the news & writing blogs about it, etc #

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• 16:25 It’s snowing. #
• 22:03 Finland 1st country in world to make broadband Internet accessible for all a legal requirement: is.gd/4pZlH (NPR) #
• 00:40 Hard to believe it was 34 F & snowing all day on Oct. 18. I had a nice fire, that’s the best I can say about it. Oh, & the Pats won. Rah. #

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• 12:22 Authors: how your big-name “traditional publisher” will REALLY “market” you and your book (too true for laughs!): is.gd/4nQja #
• 17:22 *Gideon Redoak* just got a nice review from ParaNormal Romance! is.gd/4oaka #
• 22:10 Reading books about the 1960s in prep for NaNoWriMo. Amazing what a hole Facebook has left. I’ll do this before it’s too late: #BeatCancer #
• 22:10 @jarien I certainly hope not! #

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• 13:03 The 500-lb gorillas go at it: Amazon & Wal*Mart in book price war. Guess the rest of us better diversify. 🙁 is.gd/4mH8S (Yahoo) #
• 19:35 I’m seriously rethinking this whole “social networking” thing… #
• 19:39 Good grief–it’s depressing that people are this stupid! “Mass. teen face ’V for Vendetta’ charge” is.gd/4n1PR (Bstn Hrld) #

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